I’m a student of philosophy, biology, and mathematics.
Professionally, I write software. Take a look at some of my recent work below. You can also find me on Twitter, GitHub, and Goodreads.
The best way to contact me is via email: ben@bsima.me
Code Log
Projects
Some of the software I have written or contributed to. See also github.com/bsima and git.sr.ht/~ben
Active
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yesod-text-markdown
Use Markdown in your Yesod projects.
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Pprjam
The best place to organize your references. (Still in alpha.)
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Jour
The simplest possible journal.
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Aurelius.co
A website dedicated to one of my favorite historical persons, Marcus Aurelius.
Past
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Gluco
An open source glucometer using Arduino
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Enterprise Cloud Database
An enterprise cloud database I wrote for work.
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Protochip
Portable, automated blood analysis system
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WholeLatteLove
A Ruby-on-Rails ecommerce app.
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Botangle
A tutoring web app
Articles
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Git Good
A friendly guide to matering git.
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How I finally learned what a "monad" is
I struggled. But then I invented it to learn it.
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SQL Database Design with Yesod and Persistent
How to write your models for a normalized database.
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StrangeLoop 2017
Lessons and learnings...
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3 Tools I Use On Every Server
The first things I install when I start a fun new adventure.
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A Perl Script to Tell You The Sunrise and Sunset
That's right, I can still do Perl.
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Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil
Treat it as a type, like Nothing, not a value like null.
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Pattern matching as a tool for refactoring
Pattern matching is useful even if you don't end up using `match` because it helps you reason about your code
- Clojure learning resources